Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEI have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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